Biomedical subjects

G A Tyson

Publications and source records attributed to G A Tyson.

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PubMed1995

The quality of psychiatric nurses' interactions with patients: an observational study.

The behaviour of nursing staff in each ward of a psychiatric hospital was observed at 5-min intervals for between 7 and 10 h per day for 10 days. The nurses' behaviour was equally divided between interacting with patients, interacting with staff, solitary task oriented behaviour and other behaviours. There was less staff-patient interaction in the acute ward than in the long-term and psychogeriatric wards and senior nurses interacted less with patients and engaged in more solitary task oriented behaviour. Of the interactions with patients, almost 25% were rated as positive and only 0.3% negative. In the long-term wards almost 47% of the interactions were positive.

Analysis of Variance↗

PubMed1983

Stress and detention.

The psychological response to detention is examined. It is argued that detention imposes severe stress and that many detainees seem to exhibit the characteristic symptoms of a post-traumatic stress disorder. The contention that detention is stressful is based on the fact that detainees are held in isolation and have no control over the situation, both of these factors having been shown to be associated with the experiencing of stress. Individual differences affecting the responses to stress are discussed, as are the long-term consequences of detention.

Humans↗

PubMed1981

The primacy-recency effect in counselor response.

It has been suggested that when responding to a client's statement which contains two sequentially distinguishable messages, a counselor will tend to focus on the latter message, i.e., there is a recency effect. The present study investigated this contention empirically. Twenty-six experienced telephone counselors each responded to 12 client statements, all of which contained two distinct messages. The responses were classified according to their focus, and chi-square tests were performed on these frequencies for each statement. The results provided no support for the recency hypothesis, but rather showed that the Ss tended to make responses that were either nonspecific or included both messages. It also appeared that the Ss responded to the content rather than the positioning of the messages.

Communication↗